augurium

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From augur +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

Noun

augurium n (genitive auguriī or augurī); second declension

  1. augury
  2. divination, prediction
  3. omen, portent
  4. foreboding

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative augurium auguria
Genitive auguriī
augurī1
auguriōrum
Dative auguriō auguriīs
Accusative augurium auguria
Ablative auguriō auguriīs
Vocative augurium auguria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

(All derived from one or another of the Late Latin forms)

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: aguri
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Padanian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:

Borrowings:

References

  1. ^ augurium” in volume 2, column 1371, in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present